Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Researchers at Bio Nano Consulting (BNC), have produced a miniaturised version of the London tube map, measuring 2 x 3 mm, which is approximately the size of a pinhead. The map was etched using specialised lasers by Dr Richard Winkle, a BNC researcher at Imperial College London, whilst testing the ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The latest funding brings the total investment secured by the Centre for NanoHealth to £21.6 million. This sum includes £10 million of funding from the Welsh European Funding Office, £7.6 million from Swansea University and £2.5 million from industry.
The Centre for NanoHealth at Swansea University will enable, for example, researchers ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have succeeded in creating synthetic neurons using carbon nanotubes. The individual neurons--though primitive--have excitatory and inhibitory synapses. USC professors Alice ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
A study by bioengineers at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA) indicates that amongst the different shapes of nanoparticles, stars may be the best for certain applications.
The essential factor is how light reflects off the particles. Compared with rods, cubes, cones and spheres, nanostars can significantly enhance the reflected light, which ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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Researchers at MIT have succeeded in attaching polymer-based patches to cells. Without interfering with the cell’s normal functions, the polymeric “backpacks” can be used to hold tiny amounts of cargo or to ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Nanotechnology has been the growing focus of exciting research and discovery for more than a decade. And experts are expecting that nanometer particles will become a lot more important in the future than they already are today. A huge market for medical products is being predicted for the coming decades, ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
US FDA will hold a public meeting to gather information related to the implementation of recommendations of the Nanotechnology Task Force Report. The event is scheduled for 8 September in Rockville, MD, USA. There will be several breakout sessions during the day, one of which will focus on medical devices ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Tweezers hold the device used to test new microbattery component.
The cause of everything from the common cold to AIDS, viruses have a deservedly dreadful reputation. But a research team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA, USA) may have found the one viral strain to good use: The researchers ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Silver has been known since ancient times - but not just to make jewelry, tableware, utensils, or silver coins. The metal has also been used as an antiseptic and disinfectant. More than 2000 years ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, wrote that silver had beneficial healing and anti-disease properties. ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
A researcher at Michigan State University in the United States and his students have developed a nanomaterial that makes plastic stiffer, lighter, and stronger, reports ScienceDaily. Potential applications include more-durable medical equipment along with fuel-efficient airplanes.
The material - xGnP Exfoliated Graphite NanoPlatelets – will be instrumental in the development of ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
On the left is a schematic of the first 3-D "fishnet" metamaterial that can achieve a negative index of refraction at optical frequencies. On the right is a scanning electron microscope image of the fabricated structure, developed by UC Berkeley researchers. The alternating layers form small circuits that can bend ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
To the surprise of no one, the med-tech industry is finding that there is, still, plenty of room at the bottom, to paraphrase physicist and nanotechnology pioneer Richard Feynman. The global medical market for nanotechnology applications accounted for approximately US$1.7 billion in 2007. The vast majority of this revenue--nearly 90%--was ...
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